The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-09-15
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a small, perfectly formed potato grow
ing in corn-stalk.
A Diamondale (Mich.) sow gave
birth to thing with the forehead,
teeth, mouth ears, and hind parts, ex-
cept the feet, of rabbit.
Richard Crouch of jackson county, |
Michigan, is the owner of a snow-white |
masassauga. The snake has seven |
rattles and is quite tame.
A musical progidy is thought to have |
been discovered in Saville DeMay, a
Belgian lad years old, and cripple,
who lives in Claysville, Pa.
A spreading viper was about to strike
a 17-month-old child in yard at
Rockville, ILL.,, the other dav, when
cat pounced upon the reptile and
killed it.
According to the Berlin correspond
ent of the Cologne Gazette, Prince
Napoleon is about to publish a work
bearing the title, Napoleon ct ses
Detracteurs."
Americus, Ga, has obtained the
cheapest railroad in the world. She
has secured about twenty EIGHT miles
of railroad with full and complete con-
troll over it, for s., 900.
Travis Van Buren. President Van
Buren's grandson. is said to have re-
lieved the English brethren of $40, 900
at this years Derby. That's one bit OF
revenge for the, fisheries award.
W.K Vanderbilt has been systemati-
cally robbed by the superintendent OF
his poultry-yards, who has mysterious
ly disappeared. It's supposed that the
culprit took about s., 600 in all.
The picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds
Df. the s.Three Trustees of the Tenth
Lord Westmoreland" has been pre-
sented to the New York Metropolitan
Museum by Mr.. j. s. Morgan. 1t cost
10000.
Judge Henderson of Lebanon
county, decides that fruit overhanging
q fence belongs to the man who owns
the ground over which it hangs and
chat he can cut off the limbs of the tree
e he chooses.
Near Reno, Cal, railroad ties laid
down nineteen years ago when taken
mp were found to be in perfect state
OF preservation. An analysis, to see
what prevented the wood from rotting,
will be made at once.
jefferson Davis and Thomas L.
Clingman of North Carolina are the
only ex-Senators now living of all the
Southern members of that body who,
in July, 1861 were expelled from the
United States Senate for having left
their seats and gone over to the Con-
federacy.
John Brown, p years old, residing
on farm with his mother three miles
.x.l Ia1e ehor, ok,lr,
put a bullet through the palm of his
hand with revolver to evade work,
He submitted himself to the same
ordeal about year ago, only using
the other hand as target.
A party of Japanese have bought
400 acres of land in the foothills neal
Campo Seco. Calaveras county, Cal,
and they propose to irrigate, through
a mining ditch from the Mokelumne
river and convert it into a tea farm
It is said that japanese have expert
mented with tea III the vicinity and
proved it success.
Ira Blu Ban Gu Sin. a Chinese
graduate of Yale in the class OF '7S
recently visited Saratoga. He is q
Hong Kong tea merchant. has about
45,OO0 acres of tea under cultivation
and employs 1900 coolies. He is OF
medium hight and has dispensed with
his cue. In conversation he is: most
interesting, speaking perfect English
Mr.. Ruskin has given his opinion o
marriage in his usual positive manner
He says: mo man should marry til
he has made himself worthy of a gooo
wife and able to maintain her and hi:
children in comfort. And he shoult
choose her as he would choose hi
,destiny-with range of choice from
earth to heaven; no girl unde
eighteen"
ID. o. Mills is having $1,000 bronze
door made for the tomb that he is
building at Tarrytown. 1t will be {
feet by feet 6. The style is in imi-
fation of the old-fashioned oak doors,
with lattice-work top. The paneline
cross-pieces and wood grooves are to
be repeated in bronze. Three com.
panion pieces are to be made as win
dows. They are 3x4 and in bronze lat
Eice-work.
A rather singular phenomena has
manifested itself on the Mississippi
river during the last few days. The
water has the appearance of dark
green and the color is more noticeable
In the waves created by the passage of
d steamboat. Ii is said that if a
quantity of water is placed in vessel
and allowed to remain motionless for
M short time that a green scum will
korm ON the surface.
Golden trout are found in but one
place in the world-that is in the
brooks of Mount Whitney, up near the
banks of everlasting snow. They
have golden stripe down each side
and are the most beautiful fish that
swim. Those who saw the first speci-
mems of these trout that were brought
down from the head of Whitney creek
thought they were made up for show
that stripes of goldleaf had been glued
no their sides.
John Lenahan has found an inter
esting relic of the times of old Fort
Crawford at Prairie du Chen. 1t con-
sists of a twenty-pound ball with a
chain attached. 1t was imbedded in
the earth about $50 yards from the site
of the old fort. 1t is thought to have
been where found for thirty-fve or
forty years and used to punish refract-
ory soldiers. 1t is proposed to send it
to Madison to be placed among the
relics in the state historical rooms.
The 6-year-old son of Bernard Green,
near Bennettsville, Ind, was recently
run over by a heavy wagon and his
right leg crushed. The father knew
that the leg must come OFF. and, after
vainly trying to find a surgeon, decided
TO perform the operation himself. He
had no instrument with the exception
Of razor and a small meat saw, but
with these he took off the leg neatly,
and the boy recovered from the shock
and is getting well. Surgeons say
that the job was as successful as any
one could ask.
The Empress Elizabeth of Austria,
who is a great admirer of the poems Of
Heine, on her journey to England
made considerable detour in order to
visit Frau Charlotte Embden, the
aged surviving sister of the poet. The
Empress appeared at the door before
Frau Embden had finished her toile
and praciOuSly waited for the old lady